Wall Street Journal Crossword December 13 2023 Answers

ACROSS

• Genius
  WHIZ
• Reduce gradually
  PARE
• Defeats decisively
  DRUBS
• Boxcar rider
  HOBO
• With 24-Across Emmy winner for acting writing and directing
  ALAN
• Bother
  EATAT
• Imitated
  APED
• 1963 hit for Johnny Cash
  RINGOFFIRE
• Cabo San Lucas setting
  MEXICO
• In apple-pie order
  TIDY
• Take in
  CON
• See 15-Across
  ALDA
• Polite way to decline an invitation
  NOICANT
• 1978 hit for the Trammps
  DISCOINFERNO
• Afore
  ERE
• Buttigieg in Biden’s cabinet
  PETE
• Weed
  GANJA
• Ghostly noise
  MOAN
• Lowly laborers
  SERFS
• Southwest arts mecca
  TAOS
• Leading
  ONTOP
• Barclays Center team
  NETS
• Enjoy Aspen
  SKI
• 1980 hit for David Bowie
  ASHESTOASHES
• Tropical harvest
  PAPAYAS
• Land measure
  ACRE
• Witness box words
  IDO
• Salary ceilings
  CAPS
• Just touched
  KISSED
• Tributes to unrequited love and a possible description for 18- 28- and 49-Across
  TORCHSONGS
• Wrong
  AWRY
• One being instructed
  TUTEE
• In ___ (as found)
  SITU
• Sorcerer
  MAGE
• Rose say
  STOOD
• Each
  APOP
• Hindrances to teamwork
  EGOS

DOWN

• Sound of impact
  WHAM
• One of the theological virtues
  HOPE
• Alpine goat
  IBEX
• Celestial belt
  ZODIAC
• Takeoffs
  PARODIES
• 2001 film in which LeVar Burton played Martin Luther King Jr.
  ALI
• Wild talk
  RANT
• Pistons’ place
  ENGINE
• Going against
  DEFYING
• Battle of Britain grp.
  RAF
• Mohawk Valley Community College location
  UTICA
• Business bigwig
  BARON
• Artery opener
  STENT
• Smell
  ODOR
• Hoof sound
  CLOP
• Price for a hand
  ANTE
• It gets worn out
  COAT
• Prerelease sample
  DEMO
• Get the wrinkles out
  IRON
• Flier’s choice
  SEAT
• Flowerless foliage
  FERNS
• If called by a panther don’t anther writer
  NASH
• Routine bit
  JOKE
• In current condition
  ASIS
• Hurricane-monitoring agcy.
  NOAA
• Greek cheese
  FETA
• Fills the larder
  STOCKSUP
• Pumped up
  PSYCHED
• Indian dress
  SARI
• Lukas of Witness
  HAAS
• Spanish wife
  ESPOSA
• Seed on a bun
  SESAME
• Silent film star ZaSu
  PITTS
• Score after deuce
  ADOUT
• Iberian city for which a wine is named
  PORTO
• Scissors sound
  SNIP
• Party freebies
  SWAG
• In which case…
  ERGO
• Colors
  DYES
• Bus. bigwig
  CEO
• Pontiac muscle car
  GTO